Using animation assistants to refine keyframes

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If you have not used animation assistants before, they are a great way to fine tune your keyframes. They let you change the nature of the keyframe and how it interacts with the rest of your animation. In this video, Richard Harrington walks you through how to use animation assistants to refine keyframes in Adobe After Effects.

- I just showed you animation assistance…but if you haven't used them before,…let's talk a little bit more about these useful tools.…The animation assistant is designed…to make it easier to change the shape of a key frame.…Let's take a look here at this particular layer.…I want to view the scale properties here.…Let's go to the graph editor.…With scale selected,…if I go under animation, key frame assistant,…you'll see different options.…

If you've got an audio file,…you can convert audio files or expressions to key frames…and that's kind of advanced but it…allows you to take the amplitude of an audio file…and make it something that can be key framed…and then copied and pasted to other properties.…All of these other ones though…require that you actually select a key frame first.…Let's click on a key frame here so it's active.…I can choose to change the ease.…

Typically, you'll go with an ease out…as you leave a key frame…and that will create a little bit of acceleration.…Essentially, think of this as a hill.…It starts to roll slowly and then…

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2/6/2018

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